Lack of support, low pay, minimal flexibility, burnout, work/life imbalance, better career opportunities – there are a lot of reasons why teachers and IT professionals are leaving education. According to a March 2022 survey by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), within the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES), 44 percent of U.S. public schools reported full- or part-time teaching openings. And, in the majority of cases, the pandemic was to blame: of public schools with at least one reported vacancy, 61 percent identified COVID-19 as the reason for the vacancies.
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